Media (R)evolutions: The Global Mobile Games Landscape

Submitted by Roxanne Bauer On Wed, 02/26/2014

New developments and curiosities from a changing global media landscape: People, Spaces, Deliberation[1] brings trends and events to your attention that illustrate that tomorrow's media environment will look very different from today's, and will have little resemblance to yesterday's.

There are about 1.6 billion people with access to the internet, and among those more than 44% play online games[2]-- that's over 700 million people worldwide! The global mobile games market is expected grow 27.3% annually to double its current size in 2016 and reach $23.9 billion in revenue. This growth is driven by both an increasing number of players as well as higher average spending per paying mobile gamer. The Asia-Pacific region is the largest market for mobile games, representing around 48% of global revenue.